Peanuts Minus Snoopy is a website based on the idea of taking Snoopy out of the Peanuts comic strip in order to reveal the disturbed psyches of the various children in the gang. Self-loathing, manic depressive disorder, anger management issues: this is why kids take Ritalin, folks. Originally envisioned for the comic strip Garfield, the concept works eerily well for others in the funny pages as well.
This comic makes perfect sense as modified. You could make an argument that there is an emotional difference for the reader in the experience of reading the strip with Snoopy included as compared to as it stands, but the essential plot of Peppermint Patty's experience is the same. What is even going on? Is this some sort of hilarious topical Ritalin joke? Is that it? Are you really skewering that whole Ritalin thing? WELL I'M NOT LAUGHING. It's 2009; do you not understand that there is an economic recession going on?
This comic makes perfect sense as modified. You could make an argument that there is an emotional difference for the reader in the experience of reading the strip with Snoopy included as compared to as it stands, but the essential plot of Peppermint Patty's experience is the same. What is even going on? Is this some sort of hilarious topical Ritalin joke? Is that it? Are you really skewering that whole Ritalin thing? WELL I'M NOT LAUGHING. It's 2009; do you not understand that there is an economic recession going on?
ReplyDeleteAre you saying people don't take Ritalin in a recession?
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